Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... court - martial on Byng commenced its sittings , through the whole trial , at the condemnation , and at the execution . In the month of November 1756 , the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Hardwicke resigned ; the Duke of Devonshire became ...
... court - martial on Byng commenced its sittings , through the whole trial , at the condemnation , and at the execution . In the month of November 1756 , the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Hardwicke resigned ; the Duke of Devonshire became ...
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... court , he drove to the office where his book was printing without changing his clothes , and summoned all the printer's devils to admire his new ruffles and sword ; such was this man , and such he was content and proud to be ...
... court , he drove to the office where his book was printing without changing his clothes , and summoned all the printer's devils to admire his new ruffles and sword ; such was this man , and such he was content and proud to be ...
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... Court in Ireland . Locke was Commissioner of Appeals and of the Board of Trade . Newton was Master of the Mint . Stepney and Prior were employed in embassies of high dignity and importance . Gay , who commenced life as apprentice to a ...
... Court in Ireland . Locke was Commissioner of Appeals and of the Board of Trade . Newton was Master of the Mint . Stepney and Prior were employed in embassies of high dignity and importance . Gay , who commenced life as apprentice to a ...
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... court of Charles the Second who possessed talents for composition which were indepen- dent of the aid of a coronet . Montague owed his elevation to the favour of Dorset , and imitated through the whole course of his life the liberality ...
... court of Charles the Second who possessed talents for composition which were indepen- dent of the aid of a coronet . Montague owed his elevation to the favour of Dorset , and imitated through the whole course of his life the liberality ...
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... children . Those who have listened to a man of this class in his own court , and who have witnessed the skill with which he analyses and digests a vast VOL . II . D mass of evidence , or reconciles a crowd of precedents.
... children . Those who have listened to a man of this class in his own court , and who have witnessed the skill with which he analyses and digests a vast VOL . II . D mass of evidence , or reconciles a crowd of precedents.
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